supporters of the ruling party, APC. To cut the story short, this
article is to set the record straight and counter the distortion of
facts by a pro-Buhari writers who disturt fact to favour the new
government.
1. The Situation/Capacity of Our 4 Refineries Before Jonathan:
To appreciate where we are we need to cast our mind where we were.
Let's see the refining capacities between of our 4 Refineries between
2001 and 2010.
PORTHARCOURT REFINERIES:
In 2001, it operated at 60.73 percent, 52.17 (2002), 41.88% (2003),
31.04 percent (2004), 42.18 percent (2005), 50.26 percent (2006),
24.87 percent (2007), 17.84 percent (2008), 9.08 percent (2009), and
9.17 percent (2010), averaging 34 percent in ten years.
***Jonathan Inherited PHCR at 9.17% capacity***
KADUNA REFINERY:
Kaduna refinery operated at 31.39 percent capacity utilisation in
2001, 34.95 percent (2002), 15.96 percent (2003), 26 percent (2004),
33.08 percent
(2005), 8.34 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 19.56 percent
(2008); 20.02 percent (2009), and 20.46 percent (2010). On average, in
the ten years, the
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical complex attained capacity
utilisation of 20.97 percent.
***Jonathan Inherited KDRPC at 20.46% capacity***
WARRI REFINERY (WARPC)
Warri refinery operated at 48.29 percent in 2001, 55.53 percent
(2002), 14.27 percent (2003), 9.10 percent (2004), 54.85 percent
(2005), 3.85 percent (2006), 0.00 percent (2007), 38.52 percent
(2008), 43.01 percent (2009), and 43.36 percent (2010), averaging 31
percent between 2001 and 2010.
***Jonathan Inherited WARPC at 43.36% capacity***
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-case-for-increasing-refining-capacity/105378/
Nigeria's Refining Capacity During GEJ Era:
May 2013: Portharcourt Refinery (66%)Kaduna Refinery (65%), and Warri (63%)
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, announced
an improvement in Nigeria's refining capacity, declaring that domestic
refining of Premium Motor Spirits, PMS, at the country's three
refineries has increased to 10.23 million litres per day.
He disclosed that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company is
currently running at 65 percent installed capacity, while the Warri
Refining and Petrochemical Company is producing at 63 per cent and the
Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company at 66 per cent of
installed capacity.
"Infact, these refineries have been running consistently for over
three months now."
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/nigerias-refineries-now-producing-10m-litresday-of-fuel-nnpc/
Before that statement was made, the then Minister of Petroleum Mrs
Alison Madueke had stated in March that early turn around maintenance
was already ongoing while the MAIN TAM that was expected to yield the
90% projected capacity was expected to commence later that year.
"Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the
Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in
April and may of this year. The TAM and rehabilitation work for Kaduna
and Warri refineries are intended to follow in quarter four of this
year and quarter one of next year respectively,"
"Our early turnaround maintenance work has commenced at the
Port-Harcourt refinery while the main work is expected to commence in
April and may of this year.
www.sunnewsonline.com/new/tam-fg-begins-work-on-port-harcourt-refinery-next-month/
Nobody or Group disputed the position of the NNPC. So who was
responsible for the improvement to 64% working capacity of our
combined refineries in May 2013? JONATHAN of course
October 2014: Turn Around Maintenance Began For The Optiman Performace
of Our Refineries (80%):
While the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries were built by two
Japanese firms - Chioda and JGC, the Warri Refinery was built by
Snapcogetti of Italy.
According to The Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy, of the
NNPC, Dr. Tim Okon when SAIPEM eventually came, it offered to
maintain Port Harcourt Refineries at $550 million, Kaduna Refineries
at $600 million and Warri Refinery at $180 million.
Okon said the bills were unacceptable to them because they were too
high despite the fact that the figures were eventually reviewed
downwards. He said the high bills prompted NNPC to send some of their
engineers to the builders abroad to learn the repair processes with a
view to saving costs.
Following this move, Okon said NNPC began to spend as low as N10
million to maintain the refineries every month as from October 2014.
Following this
development, he said the four refineries would roar back to life and
produce in optimum capacity from the first quarter of 2016.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/exxonmobil-ceo-crude-oil-prices-to-remain-low/203419/
***The Testimony/revelation was made on March 05, 2015***
The Transformational Result By GEJ's Effort
On the 10th of June, the GMD NNPC came out to make the following statements..
"We are taking the refineries unit by unit and carrying out turnaround
maintenance on them. So in other words, the maintenance are being
carried out on the run and we started a couple of months ago.
"Most of the refineries have advanced to a certain stage where they
will be able to operate very soon.
For example, the Port Harcourt refinery, which has reached an advanced
stage, will start receiving crude by end of this month and then of
course will start contributing to the available products in the
country."
www.punchng.com/news/pharcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-in-july-nnpc-gmd/
I hope this is satisfactory enough? I hope the APC fans will emulate
Buhari by giving credit to whom it is due?
-Culled from Niaraland
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